Flexural impact response and damage detection of composite sandwich beam with various PVC foam cores

Çalışkan U., Apalak M. K.

MECHANICS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, cilt.29, sa.9, ss.1276-1293, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/15376494.2020.1815110
  • Dergi Adı: MECHANICS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, DIALNET, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1276-1293
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Composite sandwich beam, 3D damage anaysis, impact damage, micro-Ct, VUMAT, PROGRESSIVE FAILURE, DYNAMIC-RESPONSE, BEHAVIOR
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article investigates the flexural impact and damage behavior of composite sandwich beam in terms of foam core effect using the micro-computerized tomography, Micro-CT. Foam core is dominant on the damage behavior of sandwich structures. As the python scripting language was used parametric modeling, the intra-laminar damage was created with the three-dimensional explicit finite element subroutine and implemented to ABAQUS as VUMAT via FORTRAN. The results of the FEM were found to agree well with experimental observations. Notably, the change in foam core density has a very high effect on contact force levels, impact trend and damage progress.